Fastener for gloves, &amp;c.



1 Patented Aug. 20, |901.

.l. V. WASHBURNE.' FAsTl-:NEB Fu GLovEs, aw.

(Applstion med Aug. .1', 1900.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A .IAMEs v. wAsI-IBUENE, OEWATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, As'sIcNon To TEE CONSOLIDATED EAsTENEE COMPANY, OE PORTLAND, MAINE.

FASTENER FOR GLOVES, een.

sPEorEIcATIoN fencing part of Letters Patent No. 681,086, dated August so, 190i. Application filed .August l, 1900. Serial No. 25,5012. (No model.)

T all whom ifmcty concern.:

Be it known that I, JAMES V. WASHEUENE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and Stateof Connecticut, have invented an Improve ment in Fasteners for Gloves, Garments,

f dac., of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to snap-fasteners for `vvearingfapparel generally, including gloves l 1ro` two connectible portions, the one a stud member and the other a socket member.

and garments, said snap-fastenersemploying In `carrying ont my invention and for either the stud or socket member I employ an attaehing part and an inner part, and the flexible material intervenes and extends beyond these parts, and the free edge of the attachf `ing part is turned inwardly over the flexible `material and base of the inner part.

p AMy present invention relates particularly to special forms in the stud and4 socket meml bers, the object sought with the stud memy ber being to minimize or do away with metal i in the part that comes4 against the liesh and zsf 1 that, if possible, only flexible material will to raise the intervening flexible material, so

` bear against the flesh, and in the socket member the inner part is `made of convex form,

` `with the edge of the open center inwardly turned or formedas a semicircular rib, which ,v strengthens and stiens the said part and at 3 the same time produces a smooth and not l tion of the parts comprising the stud inember as connected together. Fig. 2 is a crosssection of the same parts previous to being connected. Figs. 3 and 4 are cross-sections of connected and disconnected part-s of` stud members of modified form. Fig. 5 is a plan of the skeleton spring-stud of radiating arms, and- Fig. 6 isa cross-section of the stud memlber'and socket member in the act of snapping l :p the parts together.

a. represents the skeleton spring-stud of radiating arms from common center, stamped l y out of sheet metal and cupped up to shape.

The free ends of these arms are bent over into approximately the same plane, and the extreme ends of said arms may be again bent upwardly at right angles to the other parts.

b represents the centrally-arranged support in the form of a flattened or liaring ring, which in either ease provides for the surface of the flexible material c within being exposed. The attaching part d is made with side portions and a receiving angle, and the free edge is turned inwardly` over the centrally-arranged support and the flexible material to connect the parts in both the stud and socket members. This attaching part d is preferably provided in the stud member with an open center, and in the socket member the center may be open or closed at pleasure. In Figs. l and 2 the free ends a' of the arms 'of the spring-stud are bent over into the same plane and the said dome-shaped spring-stud is passed through the open Center of the attaching part, so that the ends of the arms lie against the inner surface of the attaching part and in the receiving angle, and, as shown in Figs. l and 2, I prefer to employ a convex foundation-disk b', received in the attaching part above the spring-stud, with the periphery of the said disk lying upon the ends of the said radiating arms in the receiving angle of the attaching part, and the centrally-arranged support bis brought down into the attaching part, with the fabric intervening in the position shown in Fig. 2, and the free edge of the attaching part is thereafter to be turned over, with the flexible material upon the centrally-arranged support or flattened ring b, into the form shown in Fig. l in connecting the parts of the stud member. It will be noticed that with these parts so connected very little `of the metal of the central support b is shown, the flexible material being elevated in the open center` of the said support by the foundation-disk b', so that to all intents and purposes the surface of the stud member that comes next the flesh will only present the flexible material to bear upon the Iiesh.` l

In the modified form of stud member shown in Figs. 3 and 4. the extreme ends of the arms of the spring-stud are bent upwardly.. The dome-shaped part of said spring-stud passes IOO through-the -open center of` the attaching part, the same asin Figs. 1 andl2, andinto the receiving-angle. The flaring ring forming the centrally-arranged support is received with the intervening flexible material down into the attaching part,Wifth the free edge of the attaching part Vturned. inwardly with the fiexible material over and upon the surface of the said central ring and at the same time turning over the points lor extreme ends of the radiating arms, causing them also to clench beneath the edge of the attaching part.

The inner part e of the socket member is of A convex form, with the edge of the open center inwardly turned to form a substantially .semicircular rib e. This rib greatly stiens the inner partof thesocket member and presents a smooth surface of appreciable area against which the radiating arms of the skeleton spring-stud member bear as the two partsare snapped together.

I =may prefer, as shown in Fig. 6, to employ a `fiangged conoidal domewithin the stud member, .the object of which is `to preventthe ac- .cidental crushing in of the stud member -to such an extent that the spring function of the radiating arm/s will -be destroyed, the flange of this yconoidal dome fcoming Within the attaching .part between the free ends of Jfhetsaid radiating arms and the periphery or edge of .the convex foundation-disk h,so that the same is held rigidly in place, and -while the introduction of this conoidal dome necessarily increases the size of ythe attaching part .and ythe projection thereof from the surface of the flexible material the same will -partwithside portions, a receiving-angle and an yopen center with the skeleton spring-stud receivedwithinthe open center,a convex foundation-.d isk received within the attaching part overthe -arms of the stud part anda centrallyarranged support in the form of .a ring received down into the attachingpart with the exible material intervening and the free edge of the attaching part turned inwardly over the flexible material and the centrally-arranged supportsubs tantially as set forth.

2. In a stud-and-socket fastening device for Wearing-apparel, the combination with the exible material, of an attaching part and spring-.stud of radiating arms, a ring forming a centrally-arranged support within which the flexible material is visible, received with the flexible material into and the parts held by the overturned edge of the attaching part, and means for causing the flexible material within the ring to be raised `to present aflexible-material surface on fone side of the stud member, substantially as set forth.

8. Inastud-and-socketfastening device for .wearing-apparel, the combination with the flexible material, 4of an attaching part and Vspring-stud of radiating arms, a ring forming a centrally-arranged support within which the flexible material is visible, received with the flexible material into and the parts held by the overturnededge of the attaching part, an inner foundation-disk for causing the iiexijble material Within the ring to be raised to present a flexible-material surface on one side of the stud member, substantiall y as set forth.

In a stud-and-socket fastening device for wea ing-apparel, the combination with the flexibl@ material, of a skeleton spring-stud with arms radiating from a common center cupped up to shape, an attaching part with side portions a receiving-angle and an open center, with the skeleton spring-stud received -within the open center, and a centrally-arranged support in the form of aring received down into the attaching part with the flexible material intervening and the free edge of the attaching part turned inwardly over the flexible material and the centrallyarranged support, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 12th day of July, 1900.

JAMES V. WASHBURNE.

, Witnesses:

GEO. T. PIANCKNEY, BERTHA M. ALLEN. 

